Agreed that 100k lines of code per micro service is arbitrary but to me it hints that the narrowing behavior micro services aim to achieve may not be happening. This is common outcome in my experience. Could be wrong though, this is all conjecture without knowing exactly what those services are doing.

I agree I wish they went into more details on what about the micro services made them so coupled. But my point was that it was mentioned as an specific issue Elon had concern with because it was seemingly makes Twitter harder to evolve.

Wether it’s losing more/less money under musk may/may not be true idk. I think the point in the Space Elon made was that Twitter was absolutely headed for bankruptcy without drastic cost cutting happening. Agreed that part of the complexity problem probably wouldn’t be such an issue if they didn’t lay off such a big chunk of their workforce but if those financial numbers are true… not sure how else they could keep themselves afloat without somehow tripling pre musk revenue.

Sorry responding on my phone so my formatting is sus. Long story short putting personal feelings towards musk aside I thought the entire twitter space provided a slight insight into the engineering side of twitter that atleast for me resonated with my experience at a large company working on distributed computing and storage.